"(Jim) Clark's friends who did not know Ed McCracken came to believe that the man's name was Fucking Ed McCracken. Always the prankster, Clark also replaced the nameplate on his nemesis's door with one reading "Ed McMuffin," a change it took poor Ed three days to notice"-SalonFormer owner of

Since you're not getting that's very useful from the graphics pipe, you might try connecting a serial terminal so you can see diagnostic messages/log in at a command prompt <while you're there it might be worth the time to take a look at some of the settings in chkconfig - like desktop>.

If you need 'em, there's serial terminal instructions on the wiki or available via a search.